Audio Review: Falling For My Roommate by Garrett Leigh, Performed by Dan Calley

24 May of 2020 by ButtonsMom2003

Story: 4

Performance: 5

4.5Overall score

Sam and Micah need to communicate more.

Falling For My Roommate By Garrett Leigh, Performed by Dan Calley

Genre: Contemporary Romance, GLBTQ, MM

Released: audio-April 27; ebook March 12, 2020

Publisher: Fox Love Press

Length: 5 hrs, 40 mins / 228 pages

Cover Design: Black Jazz Design

Synopsis

Falling for his roommate gives ex footballer Micah the second chance he deserves, and what could be better than loving your best friend?

Micah
I’m a broke ex-football player with a bum leg and PTSD. Last summer, I had two choices: the streets, or find a cheap room to rent in the city. I chose the second option, which landed me with a brand-new problem, cos I hadn’t banked on my roommate becoming my best friend. Or that before long I’d find myself head over heels in love with him. Trouble is, even if Sam likes me back, I ain’t fit to be no one’s boyfriend. I don’t know how. All I do is wade through every precious moment and hope that he doesn’t regret the day he ever met me.

Sam
I’m a gay book nerd with no business falling in love with hunky athletes. Micah is the dictionary definition of beautiful, inside and out, he just doesn’t know it. And he definitely doesn’t know I’m ridiculously in love with him. The embarrassing kind of love.

He’s all I can think about.

But it’s not as simple as loving someone who doesn’t love me back. Micah is damaged goods—at least, that’s how he’d put it. The world has chewed him up and spat him out, and he thinks he deserved it. That he’s still the battered mess he was a year ago.

I want to shake him, and shout in his face that he’s not. To force the truth on him and make him believe in himself the way I do. But I can’t save Micah. One day, perhaps he’ll realise that he already saved himself.

Review

Reviewed by ButtonsMom2003

Sam and Micah need to communicate more.

I originally read and reviewed this book when the ebook was released back in March. I really enjoyed Dan Calley’s performance of the story. He does great voices and accents for the different characters. There isn’t much more I can say about it so I’m including the text of my original review of the ebook below.

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I enjoyed reading Falling for My Roommate but it didn’t pack the same emotional punch for me as other books I’ve read by Garrett Leigh. As I was reading it felt like I’d read the story before but couldn’t put my finger on what book of hers it might be similar to. In any case, it was still a good story in its own right.

Falling For My Roommate is told in first person POV, alternating between Sam and Micah. Take a look at the blurb for details about the story. The biggest issue I had with Sam and Micah is that they didn’t communicate with each other the way they needed to. I guess that’s really par for what happens in real life as well. They are attracted to each other but are afraid to tell.

Micah has suffered a terrible injury to his leg and it ended his football (soccer in the US) career. He loves living with Sam and wants to tell him how he feels but he can’t seem to open up fully about his injury and other things that happened before he left football.

The fact that Micah is holding back something bothers Sam but he loves Micah so much that he won’t push him because he’s afraid it might make Micah run away.

Once these two finally decide to be honest with each other about their feelings I enjoyed the story more. There’s a fair amount of angst due to all of the problems that Micah has but it seemed to be the right amount for the book. Having seen depression up close and personal, I appreciated the realistic way that Garrett Leigh treated Micah’s illness in the story.